Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

They're only words, unless they're true.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

No lie can live forever.

I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

All of them fans in love with me 'cause I say what's real. So I could never give a f-ck how a hater feel.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.